| VA | HB2130 | Enroll | Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board to advise the Governor regarding the economic, professional, cultural, educational, and governmental links between the Commonwealth and the LGBTQ+ community in Virginia an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1864 | Enroll | Virginia Human Rights Act; definition of employer; person employing one or more domestic workers. Expands the definition of "employer" for all purposes of the Virginia Human Rights Act to include a person employing one or more domestic workers, as de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2013 | Enroll | School board policies; school meal debt; enforcement. Requires each school board to adopt a policy that prohibits the board from filing a lawsuit against a student or the student's parent because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1888 | Enroll | Absentee voting; procedural and process reforms; availability and accessibility reforms; penalty. Makes various reforms to absentee voting processes and procedures, including those related to availability and accessibility. The bill requires certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1817 | Engross | Practice of certified nurse midwives. Eliminates the requirement that certified nurse midwives practice pursuant to a practice agreement and provides that certified nurse midwives shall practice in accordance with regulations of the Boards of Medicin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB2266 | Engross | Alcoholic beverage control; designated outdoor refreshment area license. Renames the "local special events" license as the "designated outdoor refreshment area" license. The bill allows the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1985 | Engross | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2047 | Engross | Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert testimony, if suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (26-Y 13-N) |
| VA | HB1818 | Engross | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for salaried or volunteer emergency medical services personnel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
VOTE: Agreed To (96-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| VA | HR640 | Engross | Commending educators and school support staff in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR618 | Engross | Commending Grant Holloway. Commending Grant Holloway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1900 | Engross | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe. Provides that a general district court shall enter an order upon petition by a tenant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB2321 | Engross | Governor's Secretaries; Secretary of Labor created. Creates in the Governor's Cabinet the position of Secretary of Labor. The bill transfers from the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to the Secretary of Labor responsibility for the Department of Labor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HJR555 | Engross | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundament right t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
VOTE: Agreed To (56-Y 40-N) |
| VA | HB2040 | Engross | Unemployment compensation; failure to respond; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Provides that an employer shall be deemed to have established a pattern of failing to respond timely or adequately to written requests for information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HJR542 | Engross | Study; Department of Rail and Public Transportation; transit equity and modernization; report. Requests the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to conduct a two-year study of transit equity and modernization in the Commonwealth, with emphasi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB2262 | Enroll | Traffic regulation; bicycles; report. Requires the driver of a motor vehicle to change lanes when overtaking a bicycle or certain other vehicles when the lane of travel is not wide enough for the overtaking motor vehicle to pass at least three feet t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021 |
| VA | HB2125 | Enroll | Voter registration; preregistration for persons 16 years of age or older. Permits a person who is otherwise qualified to register to vote and is 16 years of age or older, but who will not be 18 years of age on or before the day of the next general el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021 |
| VA | HB1896 | Enroll | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2148 | Engross | Small renewable energy projects; energy storage. Includes in the definition of a "small renewable energy project" certain energy storage facilities and projects that include storage facility components. Such facilities are eligible for special permit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB2054 | Enroll | Comprehensive plan; transit-oriented development. Adds reducing, modifying, or waiving local parking requirements or ratios to the strategies that may be included when certain larger localities consider incorporating strategies to promote transit-ori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1848 | Pass | Virginia Human Rights Act; discrimination on the basis of disability. Adds discrimination on the basis of disability as an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Virginia Human Rights Act. The bill also requires employers, defined in the bill, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB1899 | Enroll | Sunset of coal tax credits. Sunsets the Coal Employment and Production Incentive Tax Credit and Coalfield Employment Enhancement Tax Credit after tax year 2021 and prohibits the allocation of such credits on and after January 1, 2022. The bill provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HR535 | Engross | Celebrating the life of James Michael Wilson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HR533 | Engross | Commending Michael Cassidy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HB1969 | Enroll | Administration of blighted and derelict properties in certain localities. Modifies the definition of "qualifying locality" to include any locality with a score of 100 or higher on the fiscal stress index, as published by the Department of Housing and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2249 | Enroll | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord charges for security deposits, insurance premiums for damage insurance, and insurance premiums for renter's insurance; filing of information regarding resident agent appointed by nonresident prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2031 | Enroll | Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments at public institutions of higher education. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency or campus police department shall purchase o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1895 | Enroll | Fines and costs; accrual of interest; deferral or installment payment agreements. Provides that no interest shall accrue on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction (i) for a period of 180 days followin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1912 | Enroll | Child support payments; juvenile in custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the Department of Juvenile Justice is no longer required to apply for child support from, and the parent of a juvenile is no longer respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1904 | Pass | Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency. Requires teacher, principal, and division superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation of cultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initial licensure or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 23 (effective 7/1/21) |
| VA | HB1820 | Enroll | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; food stamp program; eligibility; postsecondary education. Adds participation in educational activities that lead to a post-secondary credential from an accredited institution of higher education or other posts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2132 | Engross | Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that the discovery of, perception of, or belief about another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation, whether ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
VOTE: Adoption (58-Y 39-N) |
| VA | HB1845 | Enroll | Alcoholic beverage control; license fee reform; delay; emergency. Delays the effective date of the 2020 alcoholic beverage control license and fee reform from July 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022. During the period of delay and subject to certain require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2161 | Enroll | Active military or a military spouse; prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, etc. Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person's military status, defined as a member of the uniformed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2216 | Enroll | Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program. Renames the Virginia Missing Child with Autism Alert Program to the Virginia Missing Person with Autism Alert Program and expands it to apply to any missing person with autism, regardless of age. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1828 | Enroll | Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles; powers and duties. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, for the duration of a declared state of emergency and for up to 90 days after it has been rescinded or expires, to (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HJR525 | Engross | National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol; Barbara Rose Johns. Authorizes, and directs the submission to the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, that the vacant spot of the Commonwealth in the National Statuary Hall Colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR563 | Engross | Work group; feasibility of transitioning to a unitary combined reporting system for corporate income tax purposes. Directs the Division of Legislative Services, in conjunction with the Department of Taxation, to establish a work group to assess the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HB2324 | Engross | Virginia Redistricting Commission; removal of commissioners; emergency. Provides for the removal of a commissioner from the Virginia Redistricting Commission for neglect of duty or gross misconduct. Removal would require affirmative votes of at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
Requires 32 affirmative votes for passage |
| VA | HJR706 | Engross | Celebrating the life of John F. Merchant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HB2056 | Engross | Status offenders; willful and material violation of court order or terms of probation; notice; orders of disposition for violation. Removes the option for a court to order that a status offender be detained in a secure facility for a willful and mate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB2049 | Engross | Electric utilities; customer credit reinvestment offsets. Eliminates customer credit reinvestment offsets under which a utility is allowed, upon request, to reduce or eliminate amounts of overearnings that otherwise would be required to be credited t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1984 | Engross | Electric utilities; triennial review; rates of return. Provides that the State Corporation Commission, in any triennial review proceeding, including the first triennial review proceeding conducted after January 1, 2021, for Dominion Energy Virginia, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1914 | Engross | Electric utilities; period costs. Provides that in a triennial review proceeding, certain utility generation and distribution costs that are not proposed for recovery under various cost recovery mechanisms, at the State Corporation Commission's discr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (8-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HJR651 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Katherine Bridgforth Hooker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR719 | Engross | Commending Joe Szakos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| VA | HJR704 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Ida Johnson Lewis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR709 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Stuart Wallace Connock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Agreed to by Senate |
| VA | HJR703 | Engross | Celebrating the life of William Walker Byers, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
Agreed to by Senate |
